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From the Magazine

Film of the week: Blue Jasmine

Woody Allen makes fumbling contact with contemporary hard times – and pulls out the tragi-comic stops with his best ensemble cast in years, says Nick Pinkerton.

Thursday 26 September 2013

Reviews and recommendations
From the Magazine

Film of the week: Kelly + Victor

Two fevered lovers transcend their Liverpool binds in a dangerous, electric romance. Trevor Johnston gets fired up.

Friday 20 September 2013

Reviews and recommendations
Darkness on the edge: Chris Sullivan on Consuming Spirits

Fourteen years in the making, Chris Sullivan’s singular animated feature lets loose the angels and devils of a blue-collar America at twilight. He talks hope and the abyss with Chris Robinson.

Chris Robinson
Wednesday 18 September 2013

Interviews
Adrift

Dylan Cave on an ambitious meditation on exile in the Arctic circle.

Wednesday 18 September 2013

Bytes
From the Magazine

Film of the week: In a World…

Lake Bell takes on voiceover acting’s glass ceiling in a fresh and savvy ensemble showbiz comedy, says Adam Nayman.

Adam Nayman
Friday 13 September 2013

Reviews and recommendations
BFI London Film Festival 2013:  30 recommendations

With vampires and folkies, stories from Mexico, the Philippines and Yorkshire, the BFI LFF 2013 is as multifarious as ever. Here are our favourite films so far.

Sight & Sound Editors
Friday 13 September 2013

Festivals
Venice 2013: Come in, come out of the sun

More waterlogged poise from Taiwan’s Tsai Ming-Liang, castration fun from Kim Ki-Duk and winning portraits of directors Sam Fuller, James Benning and Richard Linklater stood out on a slow Lido, reports Nick James.

Thursday 12 September 2013

Festivals
Fantasia 2013: Montreal’s monster convocation

From Vietnamese martial arts / sex melodrama / musicals to Richard Stanley’s forays around Cathar country, mumblegore entryists and the exploits of horror’s knight-errant Andrzej Zulawski, fantasy cinema once again consumed Canada’s second city this summer, reports Nick Pinkerton.

Thursday 12 September 2013

Festivals
Alive and spinning: Only the Young

Robert Greene on why a gentle portrait of three skateboarding California teens marks the cutting edge of nonfiction cinema.

Robert Greene
Wednesday 11 September 2013

Unfiction
TV’s a crowd

Do television’s collective values hobble its artistic potential, asks Brad Stevens?

Tuesday 10 September 2013

Bradlands